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The central idea of the Semantic Web initiative is to enrich Web content by machine-processable semantics. The approach is based on the following ideas:
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Use meta-data (data about data) as semantic annotations
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Use ontologies to describe knowledge needed to understand collections of Web information. The semantic annotations are linked to such ontologies
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Use logic-based techniques to process and query collections of meta-data and ontologies
In the current Semantic Web work, two main goals can be distinguished.
Interpretation 1: The Semantic Web as the Web of Data
In the first interpretation, the main aim of the Semantic Web is to enable the integration of structured and semi-structured data sources over the Web. The main recipe is to expose data-sets on the Web enriched with semantic annotations, to use ontologies to express the intended semantics of these data-sets, in order to enable the integration and unexpected re-use of these data.
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Antoniou, G., Plexousakis, D. (2018). Semantic Web. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1320
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